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US States With the Lowest Arthritis ()

46 US states ranked by arthritis (), from lowest to highest. First are District of Columbia (20), New Jersey (20.8) and California (21.4). The middle one of the 46 has 26.

What this measures

Adults who have ever been told they have arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, lupus or fibromyalgia. Source: .

For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.

Every state

RankState% of adults
1District of Columbia20
2New Jersey20.8
3California21.4
4Minnesota21.6
5Texas22.2
6Connecticut22.3
7Hawaii22.5
8New York22.6
9Florida22.9
10Colorado23
11Nebraska23.7
12Washington23.9
13Maryland23.9
14Illinois24
15Arizona24.5
16Georgia24.7
17Alaska25.1
18Utah25.1
19Rhode Island25.2
20Massachusetts25.2
21Wisconsin25.4
22Vermont25.6
23Wyoming25.8
24Kansas26
25New Hampshire26.1
26North Carolina26.3
27North Dakota26.4
28Oregon26.5
29Iowa26.5
30Idaho26.5
31Delaware26.6
32Virginia27.4
33Montana27.4
34South Carolina27.9
35Michigan28.7
36Missouri28.8
37Indiana29
38Ohio29.1
39Oklahoma29.3
40Maine29.6
41Alabama29.8
42Arkansas30.3
43Louisiana30.3
44Mississippi31
45Tennessee33.4
46West Virginia37.5

More on arthritis ()

A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.